About the cover:

Bound in full mid-blue goatskin, with leather-jointed hand-coloured machine-made endpapers and doublures. All three edges are rough gilt; the book is sewn onto a stub, is rounded and backed, has hand-sewn endbands and laced-on laminated paste boards. The binding is gold-tooled across the cover using a series of pallets and small irregularly shaped finishing tools. The binding is signed and dated on the inside of the rear cover and is housed in a cloth-covered drop-back box, with a blocked leather title label on the spine.

About the content:

Philippe Jaccottet: Cherry Tree

‘Le cerisier’, translated from the French by Mark Treharne.

The Delos Press, Birmingham 1991 Philippe Jaccottet undertakes a journey of reflections on dreams, imagination, nature and how the changing light causes his mind to make many connections to memories of the past.

About the artist: Tracey Rowledge is an artist but also works in the field of applied due to her fine bindings. She grew up in Surrey and took a Pre BA Foundation course from Epsom School of Art & Design, graduating with distinction in 1989. Subsequently, she received a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of London Goldsmiths’ College and, also with distinction, a diploma in Fine Bookbinding & Conservation from the Guildford College of Further & Higher Education.

Tracey Rowledge has participated in many competitions and exhibitions with great success. Since 2011, she has been a guest lecturer, for example in the USA, in Switzerland at the Centro del libro, in the Netherlands, in Sweden, or West Greenland, but also in Ireland and across the UK.